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H’able CJ of SC has hit the bulls eye (in saying outdated laws must be repealed) as reported in the Daily “Pakistan Today” link:- http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/outdated-laws-must-be-repealed-says-cjp/#IDComment191800260. 

The fact is that panacea of Pakistan’s many ills lies in removing the out dated laws from the statue books of the country, where we have been made prisoners of our past.

Mr. CJ you and your honourable colleagues have done a lot for this country. Kindly do us another favour, for which our generations will be thankful to you.

Please find a solution to immediately replace the current election process (which is the mother of all problems) with a new one in which every party leader should stand to be elected directly, as head of the government. However, before the elections, each participating party will declare a list in advance of it’s assembly members (for the voters to know beforehand the qualifications, capabilities, character & mettle of their future public representatives). Now after the elections, the proportionate number of these advance named party representatives will be automatically elected, starting from the top of the list, according to the share of the votes polled in favour of the party leader.

In this way, very high quality members (who will be even confirming the appointment of judges) will come to assembly, Jagirdars hold on voters will lose its grip, election expenses will be drastically reduced, sale of votes will be eliminated, neat and corruption free governance will emerge, Biradari system menace will crack down, people’s frustration from the democracy will be minimized, parties will be forced to implement their manifesto and people’s say in direct selection of rulers will increase manifold.

Sir, the definition of insanity says “doing an act over and over again and expecting a different result.” There is also a saying in IT jargon that “Garbage in garbage out”. The existing system will never deliver in our circumstances. So, kindly help this nation come out of the clutches of the prevalent exploitive system, whereby, 3-5 % cruel minority is ruling & plundering rest of the suffering majority.

The change of system will also automatically stop the talk of dismemberment of Pakistan, so rampant these days.

As reported on a T.V. Channel, British born Pakistani boxer Mr. Amir Khan, who won in July 2011 world boxing light welterweight championship title at LAS VEGAS, by defeating Zab Judah, has been honoured by President Barack Obama with a dinner at White House, which was also attended by the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and many other specially invited Muslim sportsmen.

Here in Pakistan, we are still awaiting decision from the government on a suggestion (Link:- https://www.snayyar.com/pride-of-performance-for-amir-khan-world-boxing-light-welterweight-champion.html), for awarding Pride of Performance to Mr. Amir Khan who brought so much joy, happiness and pride to the Pakistanis in particular and Muslims all over the world, by lifting  world boxing light welterweight championship title, while specially wearing green and white Pakistani national colour.

Come on Mr. Asif Ali Zardari and Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani act quickly, lest you may miss this golden opportunity to act according to the wishes of the billions of Muslims world over and win their hearts.

Recently the defense Secretary briefed to a committee in parliament that Abbotabad incident happened because Pakistan had not perceived any threat from the west and that now Pakistan is fully prepared for any such eventuality. My question to the people in the government is that is this the preparation of Pakistani defense planning, that whenever Afghanistan wants, she can commit aggression against a nuclear armed Pakistan, kill its people in scores of dozens and then go back without being punished?
 
Let me tell that such unabated killings of Pakistani troops will happen again and again in future and can’t be curbed with protests with Afghan diplomats or NATO people. Now it is an international rule, albeit neither legal nor approved by the UNO, that countries make pre-emptive strikes for even any perceived hostile action against their people or country.
 
So, in my opinion, if at all we are serious in eliminating such future aggressions against our motherland, Pakistan must at least make retaliatory strike on Afghanistan in such a befitting manner, that it will think 1000 times before repeating in future, any such hostile acts. In fact, I believe that in such situations ” Qatal Moozi Qabal Eeza ” i.e. nip the evil in the bud.  
 
Here I am reminded by a quote of Ch. Shujaat Hussain wherein, he said, Pakistan has not made Atom bomb for firing on Shab-e-Barat. Moreover, we should also remember that saying ” Hay Jurm-e-Zaeefi Ki Saza Marg-e-Mufajat. “
 
                                          Pakistan Zindabad

Pakistani police officer Shahzadi Gulfam, serving in a UN peace operation, has received the 2011 International Female Police Peacekeeper Award. Shahzadi holds the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and is the first Pakistani female officer to receive this award. She is deployed in the UN Mission in Timor-Leste as the UN Police (UNPOL) Team Leader in the Timor-Leste National Police Vulnerable Persons Unit in Dili.

Link:- http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/08/pakistani-female-cop-gets-award/

Dr. Umar Saif Named one of the World’s Top Young Innovators by MIT. Link :- http://www.lums.edu.pk/news_detail.php?id=TlRBeg

Dr. Umar Saif, Associate Professor at the School of Science of Engineering, has been recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators (TR35) in the world. In the last decade, this is the first time a Pakistani has been selected for the prestigious TR35 award.

 “The TR35 recognizes the world’s top 35 young innovators that are radically transforming technology as we know it. Their work – spanning medicine, computing, communications, energy, electronics and nanotechnology — is changing our world”, according to MIT Technology Review.

Dr. Umar Saif has been honoured for his work on technologies for the developing-world. Technologies developed by Dr. Saif’s research group and startups are used by millions of people in the developing-world. Notable among the many of these are: BitMate – that enhances the speed of Internet in the developing-world using peer-to-peer technology, and SMSall.pk – Pakistan’s largest SMS Social Network which has sent close to 4 billion SMS for users in Pakistan.

Dr. Umar Saif joins an elite group of researchers and entrepreneurs selected over the last decade. Previous winners include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook; Jonathan Ive, the chief designer at Apple; David Karp, founder of Tumbler; Harvard Professor Alán Aspuru-Guzik for his work on Quantum computers; and MIT Neuroscientist Ed Boyden, one of the inventors of the emerging field of optogenetics, which makes it possible to control neurons with light.

MIT Technology Review selects the top innovators after a rigorous evaluation process. Judges, who are leading experts in their fields from universities such as MIT, Stanford and Harvard, consider hundreds of high-impact researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world, out of which top 35 are chosen for the award.

“This year’s group of TR35 recipients is driving the next wave of transformative technology and making an impact on the way we live, work and interact”, said Jason Pontin, editor-in-chief and publisher of the MIT Technology Review.

Dr. Saif has won numerous awards for his innovative technology solutions for the developing-world. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is a recipient of the MIT Technovator Award (Grassroot Technologies); Mark Weiser Award for best paper award at PERCOM, the top rated conference in the field of pervasive computing; Digital Inclusion Award from Microsoft Research and the IDG CIO Technology Pioneer Award. Before moving to Pakistan, Saif worked at MIT and received a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.

“We are immensely proud of this recognition for Dr. Saif and of how it reflects on the cutting edge work being done at our young School of Science and Engineering”, said Adil Najam, Vice Chancellor of LUMS.  “Dr. Saif’s work demonstrates not only the potential for innovation in technology for development but also the level of enterprise and expertise that already exists within Pakistan and the larger developing world.”

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 “I could end the deficit  in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that  anytime there is a deficit of  more than three percent of GDP all sitting members of  congress are ineligible for reelection. “

Why not put it up to Pakistani parliament!!!

Pakistan is calling for its Anna Hazare not for anti-corruption bill but for saving the innocent humanity in Karachi carnage.

Come on just one person from the huge crowd of President, Prime Minister, Ministers, Chief Ministers, Governors, Speakers & Deputy speakers, MNA’s & MPA’s.

Is there  not even one person in this nation of 18 crore people, to just stand up and protest like Anna Hazare, against the unabated killings of innocent perons in Karachi?

The silence of the entire nation and all the organs of the state on Karachi Killings is deafning, but all of us must remember, that if today we fail to move individually & collectively, to stop the daily carnage of humanity in Karachi, then be ready to face the situation, where even our names will be scratched from the annuls of the history.

Na Samjho Gay Tou Mit Jago Gay Aay Pakistan Walo

Tumahari Dastan Tak Bhi Na Ho Gi Dastanon Mein.

The deadly terrorism violence in Karachi has reached the stage where even to think that any civilian government can control the situation will be a folly. Now restoration of permanent peace will not be an easy task even if civilian government calls the armed forces to help Karachi back to normalcy.

However, Karachi can not and must not be left at the mercy of warmongers & terrorists  who are hell bent in their nefarious designs to make this part of Pakistan another case for the world community to interfere with an excuse they made in the case of Libya.

The situation in Karachi is not grave rather it is ultra grave. The solidarity of the country is not just threatened, it is under a direct attack.

As such, the government is urgently advised to immediately order a full fledged military operation or impose limited martial law, whichever is allowed under the constitutation (without wasting a moment) in the selected areas of Karachi, which are badly affected in the ongoing lawlessness. In this regard, the military authorities may be given a fixed time frame to achieve peace, like they did in Swat, by getting rid of all such criminals, responsible for the current lawlessness and also to make the city an arms free area.

President Asif Ali Zardari and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani are requested to immediately announce an award of Pride of Performance, for British born Pakistani Boxer Amir Khan, who while wearing green and white Pakistani national colour, lifted world boxing light welterweight championship title at LAS VEGAS by defeating Zab Judah.

THANK YOU AMERICA

By: Col Khawar Munir Haroon(Retd),Sitara-e-Imtiaz(Military)

Thank you America, you did what you are capable of doing. You should have done it much earlier. You have unnecessarily put your people, the tax payers, under relentless pressure. Your “war on terror” expenditure has crossed $ 4 Trillion dollars. Expenditure on maintaining your troops in Afghanistan has crossed $ 100 Billion dollars. Your budget deficit is touching $ 1.645 Trillion dollars. You are under debt of over $ 14 Trillion dollars. Your economy is standing on the moving sands. A bubble, which your own economists are predicting, is about to burst. Very rightly so you have put strings to your support to Pakistan.

It is always good to run away from the theater of war. You did it in Korea, then in Vietnam. Prior to that, you buckled in front of Cuba, when Castro and Che Guevara kicked out your prodigy, Batista. You are running out of Afghanistan now. Do it fast, lest your poodle stops wagging its tail. This time your exit should be forever.